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  Thread: Hospitals in KW
Post: RE: Hospitals in KW
MidTowner Wrote: (01-05-2026, 02:51 PM) -- JoeKW Wrote: (01-05-2026, 02:22 PM) -- How hard would it be to realign the LRT route to take a detour after the R&T Station? -- It would be expensive. I ...
   ijmorlan Urban Issues 365 95,846 01-06-2026, 01:37 AM
  Thread: Hospitals in KW
Post: RE: Hospitals in KW
You could have an impressive ribbon-cutting by building a new hospital on the block (actually 2 blocks, if I believe Google) bounded by King/Union/Park/Mount Hope. Yes, I know it’s the Sun Life parkin...
   ijmorlan Urban Issues 365 95,846 01-05-2026, 11:51 AM
  Thread: Grand River Transit
Post: RE: Grand River Transit
Good point about the system capacity. I recall a discussion elsewhere on a similar topic related to Toronto, where dumping a bunch of additional people onto the subway at rush hour very much would not...
   ijmorlan Transportation and Infrastructure 4,542 3,833,675 01-05-2026, 11:47 AM
  Thread: Grand River Transit
Post: RE: Grand River Transit
MidTowner Wrote: (01-02-2026, 08:16 AM) -- Bob_McBob Wrote: (01-01-2026, 01:23 AM) -- I heard multiple drivers calling in to ask if they were supposed to be doing free rides for NYE on the scanner. ...
   ijmorlan Transportation and Infrastructure 4,542 3,833,675 01-03-2026, 07:44 AM
  Thread: World politics
Post: RE: Grand River Transit
Rainrider22 Wrote: (12-29-2025, 05:23 PM) -- Its nice that you take time to explain your position or understanding of the case ( sincerely mean this) however, why do you feel the need to insult someo...
   ijmorlan Politics 10 652 12-29-2025, 06:09 PM
  Thread: Grand River Transit
Post: RE: Grand River Transit
MidTowner Wrote: (12-19-2025, 04:06 PM) -- Seniors are more likely to use transit at off-peak times, so that would be one reason to extend this kind of thing to them and not others, making better use...
   ijmorlan Transportation and Infrastructure 4,542 3,833,675 12-19-2025, 07:16 PM
  Thread: Cycling in Waterloo Region
Post: RE: Cycling in Waterloo Region
dtkvictim Wrote: (12-04-2025, 02:38 AM) -- Despite the other restrictions included, I do wonder if this is only meant to target cycling. Wider sidewalks can be turned into MUTs, bus lanes often permi...
   ijmorlan Transportation and Infrastructure 4,842 3,581,999 12-05-2025, 09:51 PM
  Thread: Cycling in Waterloo Region
Post: RE: Cycling in Waterloo Region
What about removing lanes just to reduce the road width, with nothing new being constructed in its place? I know of 4 lane roads in Waterloo that absolutely do not whatsoever in any way need that many...
   ijmorlan Transportation and Infrastructure 4,842 3,581,999 12-04-2025, 12:04 AM
  Thread: 171 King St S Waterloo | 37 & 33 fl | Proposed
Post: RE: 171 King St S Waterloo | 37 & 33 fl | Proposed
nms Wrote: (10-10-2025, 07:46 AM) -- … Condominium residential buildings will likely still be standing and incapable of being replaced since there are dozens if not hundreds of owners who hold a shar...
   ijmorlan Urban Areas 27 6,529 11-29-2025, 06:40 PM
  Thread: GO Transit
Post: RE: GO Transit
bravado Wrote: (11-28-2025, 02:00 PM) -- This is all quite a big distraction. It’s not an unreasonable request that our levels of government talk to each other and plan together. Especially when p...
   ijmorlan Transportation and Infrastructure 2,176 1,437,013 11-29-2025, 06:36 PM
  Thread: GO Transit
Post: RE: GO Transit
The PDF schedule I found at https://assets.metrolinx.com/image/upload/v1762897570/Documents/GO/full-schedules/FS20122025/TABLE31.pdf seems to have the first part of the Eastbound weekday schedule (pp4...
   ijmorlan Transportation and Infrastructure 2,176 1,437,013 11-22-2025, 11:05 PM
  Thread: High-speed rail coming to Canada!..in 4 years...maybe
Post: RE: High-speed rail coming to Canada!..in 4 years....
Don’t worry, there will be another study but still no actual high speed rail construction, so it doesn’t really matter how far line is proposed to go.
   ijmorlan General and Off-Topic Discussion 19 2,038 11-22-2025, 10:58 PM
  Thread: GO Transit
Post: RE: GO Transit
I believe the initial schedule was 2 trains to Toronto in the morning, 2 back to Kitchener in the evening, Monday to Friday. Pitiful, right? Yet now we are, if I’m reading the schedule correctly, up t...
   ijmorlan Transportation and Infrastructure 2,176 1,437,013 11-22-2025, 10:05 AM
  Thread: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Kodra24 Wrote: (10-23-2025, 03:22 PM) -- Perhaps municipalities are scared that if they start charging for parking it would reduce traffic as many drivers won't want to pay and will look for cheaper ...
   ijmorlan Transportation and Infrastructure 17,649 12,499,724 10-24-2025, 12:02 AM
  Thread: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
creative Wrote: (10-22-2025, 02:39 PM) -- I like many people drive for convenience. Time is my most valuable asset and I am willing to pay for that. I used to work in the tech park. I could drive the...
   ijmorlan Transportation and Infrastructure 17,649 12,499,724 10-23-2025, 12:47 PM
  Thread: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
plam Wrote: (10-19-2025, 11:55 PM) -- The University of Waterloo Sustainable Transportation people feel like they haven't made headway on shifting modeshare over the past 20 years. They would really ...
   ijmorlan Transportation and Infrastructure 17,649 12,499,724 10-22-2025, 03:21 AM
  Thread: GO Transit
Post: RE: GO Transit
Momo26 Wrote: (10-19-2025, 11:07 PM) -- Yes, parking should be free at the station.  You need to incentivize people taking train.  Changing habits. -- Why not just reduce fares? What is so magical ...
   ijmorlan Transportation and Infrastructure 2,176 1,437,013 10-20-2025, 01:04 PM
  Thread: GO Transit
Post: RE: GO Transit
Momo26 Wrote: (10-18-2025, 03:23 PM) -- We need lots where your GO ticket for that day validates the parking, within 10min walk to station and a family day pass that is competitively priced relative ...
   ijmorlan Transportation and Infrastructure 2,176 1,437,013 10-19-2025, 03:04 PM
  Thread: General Politics Discussion
Post: RE: General Politics Discussion
ac3r Wrote: (10-11-2025, 08:29 PM) -- Well, I'm Indigenous. I don't really need anyone telling me whether or not I should whine about Canada. From my point of view it's an occupied land and you're al...
   ijmorlan Politics 643 270,920 10-12-2025, 08:56 PM
  Thread: General Urban Waterloo Updates and Rumours
Post: RE: General Urban Waterloo Updates and Rumours
It would be nice to eliminate the mall’s surface parking in favour of incorporating it into the parking podium of the new building. Make the podium enough bigger to account for all the spaces in the c...
   ijmorlan Urban Areas 1,346 1,216,993 10-02-2025, 02:27 PM
  Thread: Road design, safety and Vision Zero
Post: RE: Road design, safety and Vision Zero
neonjoe Wrote: (09-27-2025, 07:09 AM) -- I’d rather the speeded be fined via automated speed enforcement than.. -Hiring additional police officers to do speed enforcement -Paying property taxes to ...
   ijmorlan Transportation and Infrastructure 644 265,109 09-27-2025, 09:34 AM
  Thread: Filming public meetings
Post: RE: Filming public meetings
danbrotherston Wrote: (09-24-2025, 03:55 AM) -- ijmorlan Wrote: (09-23-2025, 10:29 PM) -- I’m not surprised to learn that it is not considered proper to film a council meeting. It’s not entirely unl...
   ijmorlan Outside Waterloo Region 7 1,259 09-24-2025, 08:23 PM
  Thread: Filming public meetings
Post: RE: Filming public meetings
I’m not surprised to learn that it is not considered proper to film a council meeting. It’s not entirely unlike a court proceeding. There seems to be a contingent of people who think that it is alw...
   ijmorlan Outside Waterloo Region 7 1,259 09-23-2025, 10:29 PM
  Thread: Housing shortfall, costs and affordability
Post: RE: Housing shortfall, costs and affordability
The proper point is not anything about the merit of any group of people or about what they “should” do. The proper point is that we can expect, in an actuarial sense, a bunch of properties to come ...
   ijmorlan Urban Issues 241 61,730 09-19-2025, 09:27 PM
  Thread: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
KevinL Wrote: (09-12-2025, 06:12 PM) -- tomh009 Wrote: (09-12-2025, 05:37 PM) -- compared to essentially zero in phase 1. -- Phase 1 had a major component - the King Street underpass of the rail l...
   ijmorlan Transportation and Infrastructure 17,649 12,499,724 09-12-2025, 10:19 PM
  Thread: Restricting Right Turns on Red
Post: RE: Restricting Right Turns on Red
I don’t understand the statement that “On a green light you’ve got the right away” (I think “right of way” is meant?), or that “you proceed with a right turn immediately”. Before making a right turn o...
   ijmorlan Transportation and Infrastructure 43 4,423 09-12-2025, 07:08 AM

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